[olug] Unix Tip: CONVERT MAN PAGES TO TEXT

Brian Wiese bwiese at cotse.com
Sat Jan 4 00:28:09 UTC 2003


there's also the man2html program, maybe kinda handy
http://www.oac.uci.edu/indiv/ehood/man2html.html


|CONVERT MAN PAGES TO TEXT 
|
|There can often be times when you 
|want man pages in print, or to 
|simply save them to text for 
|something like HTML use.  The 
|common thing that people do is:
|
|man lp > lp.txt
|
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